Where can I get the MCR version 7.15, 64-bit for Windows?

I have a compiled program from a vendor that works on one machine at my company but it's an old program and PC. We want to get it working on other machines, but neither we nor the vendor has the stated MCR install package (7.15, 64-bit Windows). I've tried to copy the MCR files from the working machine over to C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB Compiler Runtime\v715, and add the \runtime\win64 path to my PATH variable, but to no avail. The program starts for a few seconds, and the process goes away with no GUI activity.

If I take the entry out of the PATH variable, I get the expected error "Could not find verion 7.15 of the MCR."

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

MCR 7.15 corresponds to R2011a.

The earliest MCR that Mathworks makes available for general downloads is 7.17, corresponding to MATLAB R2012a; see http://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler/mcr/

For the version you are looking for, it is the responsibility of the program vendor to make MCR available to you. The license terms about that were particularly strict, and it was never clear why Mathworks enforced them as firmly as it did. My personal speculation was that the situation involved technology licensed from another company which imposed redistribution condition on Mathworks -- but I have no evidence that was the case.

If you have ever licensed MATLAB Compiler for any release from R2011a (your target) onward, then you can go in through "Download Products" on https://www.mathworks.com/mwaccount/ to the "Previous Release" section, and use that to download the R2011a release of MATLAB Compiler, from which you can extract the MCR installer.